summer reading list

[schmevil]

Aside from The Project, of course. (For which I'm rereading: Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political, Michel Foucault's Fearless Speech, Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Paul Virillio's Negative Horizon OR Speed and Politics and a smattering from the Heidigger-Derrida-Marcuse tirfecta).

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Ed Brubaker's Criminal
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
Aristophone's The Lysistrata
Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men
Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Michale Pryor's Blaze of Glory

I'm reading these because they are already on my bookshelf, waiting for my attention. I have this terrible habit of accumulating books even when I don't have time to read them. I don't read much for pleasure when classes are in session, comics being the big exception to that rule. I find it hard to really enjoy fiction when I know that there are three other novels, plays and other assorted weighty tomes in need of being read yesterday.

There are a metric tonne of books on my to-read list though, and I hope to get to some of the heavyweights once I've breezed through the above. War and Peace has been giving me the evil eye, ever since that time I gave up on it 3/4s of the way through, in favour of Brothers Karamozov. Moby Dick also knows how to hold a grudge.

What are you people reading?

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Comments

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was awesome. I have reread it a few times now and it is a very powerful book.

My b/f loaned me Preacher which I'll be tackling as soon as I get some free time.

Otherwise... I've been really enjoying Empowered by Adam Warren! XD

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Why do you like Empowered? I haven't seen much of it, but opinion seems to be really divided on that one.

I love Preacher. Which reminds me, I should pick up a few more trades.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I've always liked Adam's art style and story lines. What he did with The Dirty Pair was awesome! I like that not only does he draw cheesecake gals but he also gives us beefcake guys.

Empowered is definitely for adults and isn't as cohesive as his other books because Empowered came from a series of commissions about a busty blonde girl who gets tied up a lot. But as he's developed the character there is more and more coming out that makes me really like the books.

You might think that a sexy superheroine who wears nothing but a fragile second skin and gets tied up ALL THE TIME in sexy poses would be strictly to entertain men but he's definitely got nods to the ladies in there too with half nekkid men and in the third book Empowered and her pal Ninjette are reading slash about Empowered team mates online and she even buys doujinshi slashing her team mates! XD

I guess it's just a sexy, funny romp in the superhero genre that doesn't take itself seriously.